Month: October 2016

How can we improve living conditions for refugees? How can the access reliable information on their legal status?What kind of apart unities are available or can be created for refugees? How can we tap on the many skills that moving populations bring with them? How can populations in transit and local populations come closer and[…]

Hate Speech Blocker is a new browser plugin that tackles the complex problem of online hate speech without blurring the line between freedom of speech and censorship. Call it a spellchecker, of sorts – for hate. Typically, online hate spammers that get caught venting their anger on unsuspecting victims could end up with their social[…]

We’ve just returned from our latest #peacehack, this time in Athens in collaboration with the US Embassy in Greece, Impact Hub Athens and the Onassis Cultural Center, to use technology and creativity to help alleviate and address some of the issues around the influx of refugees into Greece, which has become the major entry point[…]

It’s 5.30am on the Sunday of #peacehackLDN, and I’m sitting in hack central under dim lights lightly observing hackers who have spent all night solving problems and coding solutions. It never ceases to amaze and inspire me how these talented people can carry on working into the small hours. I remember the same thing happened[…]

Morning’s pitches so far: App to request evidence on hate speech posting Choose your own adventure’ tool based on cartoon guidance on how to respond to hate speech with characters and scenarios to help fight hate speech Emojifies type tool to suggest changing hateful words ‘why don’t you use this other word instead?’ with positive[…]

We’re recapping on problem statements and ideas from last night. Ideas so far: App to identify and tag ppl as victims and bullies Twitter analysis apis to discover and analyse hate speech App to identify ppl with different views and invite them to safe dialogue Opinion-ometer to search and rate opinions Blocking system – to[…]